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A Card Carrying Mormon’s Case for Fighting the Policy Change

A Card Carrying Mormon’s Case for Fighting the Policy Change

by James Jones | Dec 19, 2015 | Featured, Homosexuality | 29 comments

Note: This is a cross post.  To visit where the post was originally published, click here. By now, all of us have heard of the policy change by the LDS church. Reactions varied widely. I cannot explain exactly why I’m writing, but I can tell you what I hope for. I...
URGENT MESSAGE FOR MORMON GAY YOUTH

URGENT MESSAGE FOR MORMON GAY YOUTH

by Carol Lynn Pearson | Jul 31, 2015 | Featured, Homosexuality, Mormonism | 47 comments

(The text of the post was originally a post on Carol Lynn Pearson’s Facebook page on July 23, 2015.) I have been made aware of three new suicides within the last ten days–all of these in Utah, two young men and one young woman, all three known to be gay...
Love in Word and Deed

Love in Word and Deed

by Scott H | Nov 10, 2013 | Featured, Gay Sunday, Homosexuality, Revelation | 6 comments

Love in Word and Deed By Scott H. NOTE: This essay originally appeared on the blog, No More Strangers.  Click here to read Scott’s original post. By the late 1960s, the position of the LDS church towards its black members was becoming increasingly untenable. ...
Homeless Youth in Utah

Homeless Youth in Utah

by Marian Edmonds | Sep 29, 2013 | Featured, Gay Sunday, Homosexuality | 4 comments

  I am often asked if there is any way to help homeless youth. “Yes, please,” I usually say, “they need clean socks, new underwear. When it is cold, they need handwarmers. They also need sleeping bags, blankets, and if you have one, a wooden pallet so they don’t...
Defending Proposition 8—It’s time to admit the reasons

Defending Proposition 8—It’s time to admit the reasons

by Cary Crall | Aug 25, 2013 | Featured, Homosexuality, Mormonism | 6 comments

Note: This first appeared as an editorial on September 7, 2010 in BYU’s The Daily Universe.  It was taken off the website the same day it was printed, in the early afternoon. Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the recent United States District Court case that overturned...

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